Ariel Levy

Ariel Levy joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. Her subjects for the magazine have included the South African runner Caster Semenya, the artist Catherine Opie, the swimmer Diana Nyad, and Edith Windsor, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that brought down the Defense of Marriage Act. Levy won a 2014 National Magazine Award for essays and criticism for her essay “Thanksgiving in Mongolia,” and guest-edited “The Best American Essays 2015.”